Environmental Monitoring and Health Risk Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Pollution and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: characteristics of the chemical components of particulate matter; source apportionment of particulate matter; analytical methods for emerging contaminants
Interests: safety and assessment of environmental pollutants; pollutant interface migration; transformation and regulation
Interests: field observations; chamber study; volatile organic compounds; tropospheric ozone; radicals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution is widely recognized as a global health crisis, and one of the primary contributors to this burden is traffic-related air pollution. Traffic-related air pollution comprises a complex mixture of pollutants – from fine and ultrafine particulate matter (e.g., PM₂.₅, PM₁₀, black carbon) to nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) – emitted from vehicle engines and road dust, which in turn lead to the formation of secondary pollutants such as ground-level ozone and other photochemical oxidants. Exposure to these traffic emissions has been linked to a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, adverse birth outcomes, and neurological effects. This Special Issue aims to advance our understanding of traffic-related air pollution, its monitoring, and the assessment of its health risks. We invite submissions that reflect the latest advances in monitoring and assessing the health risks of traffic-related air pollution, with a focus on the following areas: advanced methods for measuring traffic-related pollutants (fine and ultrafine particles, black carbon, NOₓ, VOCs, ozone precursors); high-resolution mapping of traffic pollution and human exposure; linking traffic-related air pollutant exposure to health outcomes and innovative methodologies for assessing the burden of disease attributable to traffic emissions; and approaches that combine environmental monitoring with health data analysis, as well as integrating air quality measurements with clinical or public health data.
Dr. Huanbo Wang
Dr. Tingting Huo
Dr. Li Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- particulate matter
- health risk assessment
- vehicle emission
- reactive oxygen species (ROS)
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